Ariolimax
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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Gastropoda
Subclassis: Orthogastropoda
Superordo: Heterobranchia
Ordo: Pulmonata
Subordo: Eupulmonata
Clade: Stylommatophora
Cladus: Orthurethra
Informal group: Sigmurethra
Superfamilia: Arionoidea
Familia: Ariolimacidae
Subfamilia: Ariolimacinae
Genus: Ariolimax
Subgenera: A. (Ariolimax) – A. (Meadarion) Species overview: A. columbianus
Name[edit]
Ariolimax Mörch, 1860: 110.
Type species: Ariolimax columbianus Gould in A. Binney, 1851
Vernacular names[edit]
English: Banana slug
References[edit]
- Mörch, O.A.L. 1860. Malakologische Blätter 6: 610.
- Pilsbry, H.A. 1948. Land Mollusca of North America (North of Mexico. The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Monographs 3, Vol. 2(2): 706.
